annathepiper

annathepiper, 2 days ago to Skyrim

Well y'all, after a couple of false starts, I have successfully blown away the prior Ubuntu/Windows 10 dual boot setup on my ancient PC laptop, and replaced it with Bazzite. Bazzite is apparently a gaming-friendly flavor of Linux, and looks a lot like the Linux flavor on my Steam Deck.

It took some patience and tweaking, but now the system is successfully booting into the OS. Steam and Lutris are confirmed present. And I'm installing Skyrim as we speak.

The big hilarious question to answer here will be, will I actually be able to run Skyrim? And if so, will I get the same hilariously bad FPS I got without mods? We're talking 8-15fps right around Whiterun, LOL.

This should be amusing. :D

#Skyrim #Linux #Bazzite

annathepiper, 6 days ago to random

Unusually high number of jobs applied to today, by which I mean, nine.

Because hi, yep, still unemployed over here, and still needing SDET work.

Let's see if any of this week's round results in anybody wanting to talk to me.

annathepiper, 6 days ago to random

My money's on OpenAI not revealing the name of the actor who voiced their "Sky" product because the actor does not fucking exist, and they just trained their damned product on a sample set of Scarlett Johansson anyway to get around the whole thorny problem of, y'know, paying her.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24161253/scarlett-johansson-openai-altman-legal-action

moira, 6 days ago to Bread

Yesterday’s experimental bread, toasted!

https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/112470156252950078

#bread #baking #spinachFeta #experimental

annathepiper, 7 days ago to random

"Is it possible I'm doing these things? While unaware? To punish myself?"

"Well, sir, we ARE in a Vincent Price film and you ARE Vincent Price..."

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 12 days ago to random

THIS. THIS RIGHT HERE.

Money quote: "An AI’s difficult relationship with the truth is called “hallucinating.” In extremely simple terms: these machines are great at discovering patterns of information, but in their attempt to extrapolate and create, they occasionally get it wrong. They effectively “hallucinate” a new reality, and that new reality is often wrong."

STG you guys, if a real actual physical person was regularly hallucinating, you wouldn't trust them to do their job, would you? So why on EARTH is it somehow "better" when it's a computer doing it?!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24154808/ai-chatgpt-google-gemini-microsoft-copilot-hallucination-wrong

annathepiper, 13 days ago to random

I'll take "Things I Absolutely Do Not Want My Phone to Do EVER" for $200, Ken.

(And just to be clear, the part I don't want my phone to do is "AI listens to my calls" because PRIVACY IS STILL A THING and I don't need Google or anybody else monitoring every single goddamn phone call I might happen to make. FUCK THAT.)

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-wants-ai-to-listen-to-your-phone-calls-detect-scam-callers/

annathepiper, 14 days ago to random

"I should've married her, Mister Frodo!"

"Welp, guess you're going to have to marry Hans instead."

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 14 days ago to random

"We had provisions for sixty days..."

By which he meant, "we planned to cook Hans as soon as we ran out of trail mix."

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 14 days ago to random

Hans: You will owe me SO MANY SHEEP. Let's DO IT.

#Monsterdon

evan, 17 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to random

How many domains do you own?

#EvanPoll #poll

annathepiper, 21 days ago to random

1977. This was the same year Star Wars dropped.

@RobynGoodfellow just wondered if there was anyone who was all "Eh, who wants to see that sci-fi crap, let's go see Kingdom of the Spiders, that's gotta be a better movie."

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 22 days ago to fallout

My Fallout 3 character is now out of the vault, which means I was able to take some screenshots! And now Kimberly has a playthrough page up.

As noted before, while my site IS primarily an Elder Scrolls playthrough blog (the name of the site IS after all Anna Plays Skyrim), Fallout is going to get its own section just because hey, Bethesda game.

Interested parties can follow Kimberly's playthrough here:

https://skyrim.annathepiper.org/kimberly-playthrough/

#Fallout #Fallout3 #AnnaPlaysSkyrim

annathepiper, 26 days ago to random

In which Kimberly, child of James and Catherine, grows up in Vault 101; and in which she receives an unpleasant surprise when her father mysteriously disappears.

(This being the first post of my Fallout 3 playthrough, which I will document on my blog even though it's mostly an Elder Scrolls blog!)

#Fallout3 #AnnaPlaysSkyrim

https://skyrim.annathepiper.org/2024/04/30/in-which-kimberly-grows-up-in-vault-101/

annathepiper, 28 days ago to random

"I wonder what they were like!"

"Judging by this statue, frigging enormous!"

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 28 days ago to random

Fish! Plankton! Sea greens! And protein from the sea! And then it stopped coming, and they came instead!

Box always wigs me out a little every time I watch this movie. He's great. :D

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 29 days ago to Steamdeck

Hey Mastodon gamers! My household has been watching the new Fallout show, and I've had Fallout 3 and New Vegas for a while parked on my Steam Deck... but haven't gotten around to actively playing them. The show is making me want to! And I want to start with 3.

However, given the age of the game, I'm wondering if I should set it up for mods on the Deck similar to my Skyrim. Are there critical bugfix patches I should get as mods right out of the gate? I'm thinking of trying to play as close to vanilla as possible, for my first attempt at playing the game. Recommendations for critical mods welcome!

#Fallout3 #modding #SteamDeck

annathepiper, 1 month ago to ElderScrollsOnline

In which Marwyth aids a fellow Dunmer in Blackwood, and helps Mirri Elendis rescue her brother; helps the Ebonheart Pact reclaim Skuldafn; vanquishes Fildgor Orcthane and turns him over to Jorunn Skald-King for justice; aids mages under attack by their own shadows; and learns of a threat to the Clockwork City.

ESO catchup post from mid-January, for my Ebonheart Pact character Marwyth.

#ElderScrollsOnline #AnnaPlaysSkyrim

https://skyrim.annathepiper.org/2024/04/22/in-which-marwyth-saves-eastmarch-and-discovers-a-threat-to-clockwork-city/

annathepiper, 1 month ago to random

"I'll do it."

"Good boy."

<bark>

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 1 month ago to ElderScrollsOnline

In which Marwyth settles a feud between vampires in Wittestadr in Eastmarch; helps an Argonian Dreamwalker and gains his aid in curing the ailing King Jorunn; frees Jorunn from his enforced dreaming; helps Walks-Softly of the Thieves Guild steal back keepsakes held by a childhood "friend"; and takes on her first heist with the Thieves Guild.

More ESO catchup from early January.

#AnnaPlaysSkyrim #ElderScrollsOnline

https://skyrim.annathepiper.org/2024/03/30/in-which-marwyth-quests-through-eastmarch-and-aids-a-guild-compatriot/

annathepiper, 2 months ago to Skyrim

In which Kendeshel defends a mad mage in the sewers beneath Solitude; also fights off two different dragons in the city; marries Rulnik Wind-Strider in Riften, and settles her family at Proudspire Manor; helps the East Empire Company reclaim Japhet's Folly; and acquires the Arms of Chaos to display with the relics in her museum.

#AnnaPlaysSkyrim #Skyrim #LegacyOfTheDragonborn

https://skyrim.annathepiper.org/2024/03/13/in-which-kendeshel-gets-married-and-fights-pirates/

annathepiper, 2 months ago to random

Bone Walker now has a live page on my dev site, and that link is here:

https://dev.annathepiper.org/books/bone-walker/

And the preview and buy buttons are live, so if you wanna consider maybe buying my book or something, have at. ;)

Getting a format in place I'm liking for this particular Wordpress theme.

And I'm also thinking of what domain name I'm going to use canonically for this site once I'm ready for it to go completely live.

annathepiper, 3 months ago to random

o/~ Mothra
Mothra
The people off our island suck
Except for these three here who suck less
Maybe do not destroy them
Thank you Mothra o/~

• Singing faeries, probably

#Monsterdon

annathepiper, 3 months ago to random

Oh hey look bingo! #Monsterdon